The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-05-20

nc your ODlecl. Denu 10 liS tC-
eomplishment every energy of
your soul. Resolve upon success.
What others have done, you can
do. Industry aud perseverance
are encircled with halo of glory.
Idleness and languid efforts are
mired in the slough of despair.
They are the fostering sores of
diseased minds and hearts.
WITH MANY WHO PROFESS TO
HAVE AN AIM, IT IS a DREAMY
AFFAIR.
3. That which is to be accom-
plished in life, is of small impor-
tance to them and so they spend
their days, drifting upon the sea
of circumstances or, the object
to be attained, is so ill-dcdned, so
shapeless, SO crude in It's make-up,
that no impression is made on the
mind to awaken a desire sufficient
ly strong to hold life to the ac.
complshment of this one object,
Ia desire so strong as to compel
opposing circumstances and OBJ
stacles either to become tributary
to achieve the object, or to fur>
nish the stimulus for more deter
mined energy. Thus it is, that
boys and girls sumter away life,
and dawdle away, not only oppor-
tunities, but the best and freshest
portion of their life in doing moth
ing. A hazy purpose Is as profit
less as no purpose. Not to re-
solve upon a purpose, is to resolve
to be the victim of every influence
that caprice, whim or circum-
stance can suggest and these three
puny forces are ever present to
crook, to warp and to despoil, and
they seal many a life endowed with
noble faculties, with the seal Of a
wretched failure. Sell-deception
is the most degrading of all de-
ceptions. To cheat ones self is a
mockery to common sense. Yet
this very thing happens 80 those
who profess to have a purpose,
and then surrender it, meanly to
the first crazy trihe, or the first
silly impulse, or the first obstacle,
or the first difficulty. and then
/ cover themselves With shame ard
| confusion of which they are not
even ashamed. What puny, weak
and helpless people are carried
every day on the shoulders of
speckled, grizzled and riugstreak-
ed circumstances. and foolish and
mad impulses! w nat a fog life
many people leadl "Do not fol
one repulse, forego the purpose
Fthat you resolved to effect, -
Shakespeare. els there one whom
difficulties dishearten-who bend'
to the storm? He will do little
Is there one who will conquol
THAT kind of man never fails. ~
Hunter.
THE wise and active conquer difficulties
By daring to attempt thenr sloth an'
folly
SILVER and shrink at sighti OF toll an'
danger,
And make the IupOssibiiity, they fear.
Rowe
a NOBLE PURPOSE ENERGETTcALL'
, EXECUTED IS INVALUABLE TO
ALL THEIuGH ENDS or LIFE.
a. 1t is essential to success, Il
usefulness and happiness. 1t
the best antidote against vast
of time, foolish repinings, and tn
whole black catalogue Of complaint
that weak and foolish people TAX
: to Folly's market. A purpos
is worth more than gold to tn
! rich. 1t is the best inheritanc
for the poor. 1t makes Alexan
der Stevens 10 spite of a fraii an
sickly body, a hero. II directe
the life of Ezra Cornell. Notwith
standing his poverty and har
work when a boy, he became a
educated man and the founder O
Cornell University. Mr. Prescoi
having lost one eye, and the othc
I so weakened that it could only b
ufed few hours a day, resolve
to visit Spain with the view q
] gathering material for his Life q
I Columbus and the Conquest {
Grenada. His Ferdinand an
Isabella, Conquest of Peru an
Conquest of Mexico, written Will
!. he could use his eye about thre
I, hours a day, attest his indomitabl
win and purpose. The life an
the labors of President James A
I Garfield, and Daniel Webster'wel
largely due to their high and VI
bending purpose